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‘Despite it all?’: The Failure of Iraq’s Thawrat Tishreen
The largest protest movement in Iraq’s history, Thawrat Tishreen of 2019, shouldn’t have achieved so little. The movement pursued...
Asa Breuss-Burgess
20 min read
‘Big Brother is Watching You’: The Use of Live Facial Recognition by Law Enforcement Agencies and International Human Rights Law
The voice came from an oblong metal plaque like a dulled mirror which formed part of the surface of the right-hand wall […]. The...
Udit Mahalingam
22 min read
On Rules-based Order
There is a certain irony in a prisoner of law receiving a prize given by lawyers. Something must have gone very wrong when one who...
Chow Hang-tung
17 min read
Afghan Women’s Rights to Education and Health Care in a Culture of Impunity
In the aftermath of the Second World War, just over seventy-five years ago the international community embraced the Universal Declaration...
Sima Samar
15 min read
The Airspace Tribunal and the Right to Live Without Physical or Psychological Threat from Above: In Conversation with Shona Illingworth and Nick Grief
Shona Illingworth is a Danish-Scottish artist and Professor of Art, Film and Media at the University of Kent, UK. Her work examines the...
Aidan Johnson
20 min read
Sexual Violence and Birth Prevention: Conceptualizing Beijing’s Attacks on Uyghur Reproductive Capacities as a Settler Colonialist Strategy of Attritional Genocide
NOTICE: This article contains information that some readers may find distressing. ‘Take her to the dark room’, said the Han Chinese man...
Adrian Zenz
25 min read
Gaza: Can Anyone Hear Us?
Gaza: Can Anyone Hear Us?[1] In a Washington Post article published on 16 December 2023, the reporter David Ignatius wrote: For...
Sara Roy
37 min read
Human Rights between Universality and Indivisibility: In Conversation with François Zimeray
François Zimeray is a prominent French diplomat, lawyer, former politician, and human rights activist. Zimeray previously served as...
Nadia Jahnecke
18 min read
People Not Boats: Sacrificing Human Rights on the Altar of the Hostile Environment in the UK
If you tolerate this, your children will be next! Manic Street Preachers, 1998 Introduction The issue of immigration and human rights...
Zrinka Bralo
27 min read
Bearing Witness to Libya’s Human Rights Tragedy
The 2011 Western and Arab intervention in Libya was born of the lessons learned (or, as the case may be, not learned) from the...
Stephanie Williams
30 min read
Hunting Monsters: In Conversation with Eric Emeraux
Eric Emeraux is the former Head of the Central Office for Combating Core International Crimes and Hate Crimes (OCLCH), France’s war...
Anaëlle Drut-Desombre
20 min read
Tibet’s Advocate: In Conversation with Dhondup Wangchen
Dhondup Wangchen is a Tibetan filmmaker. As a self-taught filmmaker, he secretly shot Leaving Fear Behind in response to the Beijing...
Nancy Lura
12 min read
The Past, Present, and Future of Political Protest in Burma: In Conversation with Bo Kyi
Bo Kyi is a Burmese human rights activist and founder of the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), a human rights...
Aidan Johnson
20 min read
Bridging Trauma to Hope: In Conversation with Jessa Crisp
Jessa Crisp is a licensed professional counsellor, public speaker, and anti-trafficking activist. A victim of sex trafficking as a child,...
Nadia Jahnecke
26 min read
Invisible in Plain Sight: How Can We Increase the Rate of Identification of Victims of Human Trafficking and Slavery?
My Story Ten years old and wishing I was dead. Sitting on my bed, staring at my hand—wondering whether I was invisible or not. I never...
Jane Lasonder
18 min read
What Comes After Freedom: In Conversation with Behrouz Boochani
Behrouz Boochani is an award-winning Kurdish writer, journalist, scholar, cultural advocate, and filmmaker. His memoir No Friend But the...
Alexandra Marcy Hall
14 min read
Hong Kong’s Last Generation: In Conversation with Frances Hui
Frances Hui is policy and advocacy coordinator for the Committee for Freedom and Hong Kong Foundation. Having become an activist at the...
Nadia Jahnecke
21 min read
The Legal Battlefield of the Syrian Civil War: In Conversation with Anwar al-Bunni
Anwar al-Bunni is a Syrian human rights defender who has fought for the right to freedom of speech and for democratic reform in Syria. He...
Nour Kachi
15 min read
Freedom to Think in the Age of AI: In Conversation with Susie Alegre
Susie Alegre is a leading international human rights lawyer who has worked on the most challenging legal and political issues of our...
Nadia Jahnecke
23 min read
A Democratic Alternative for Post-Theocracy Iran: In Conversation with Ali Safavi
Ali Safavi is a member of Iran’s Parliament in Exile, National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), and President of Near East Policy...
Solomon Njombai
29 min read
The Echoes of Incarceration: In Conversation with Mansour al-Omari
Mansour al-Omari is a Syrian human rights defender and legal researcher. He holds an LLM in Transitional Justice and Conflict. Al-Omari...
Nour Kachi
15 min read
Human Rights and the Russia-Ukraine War: In Conversation with Oleksandra Matviichuk
Oleksandra Matviichuk is a prominent human rights defender, currently leading the Center for Civil Liberties and coordinating the...
Nadia Jahnecke
16 min read
Behind the Closed Doors of the Syrian Revolution: In Conversation with Wassim Hassan
Wassim Hassan is a Syrian political activist. He is a member of the The Syrian Women's Political Movement and the Mouatana Movement, a...
Nour Kachi
24 min read
A Journey through the Many Faces of Accountability: In Conversation with the Legal Advisors at eyeWitness to Atrocities
Anna Gallina is a Legal Consultant at eyeWitness to Atrocities. Julianne Romy formerly worked as a Legal Advisor at eyeWitness to...
eyeWitness to Atrocities
24 min read
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